Advances in Sustainable Management of Contaminated Stormwater
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 1072
Special Issue Editor
Interests: drainage systems; stormwater management; wastewater treatment; modelling; ambient water quality
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite great efforts in this area, the contamination of stormwater is still a major burden for many water bodies. This is also partly due to limited knowledge on contamination specifics and appropriate treatment. Depending on landuse, the type of sewer system, specific discharge conditions, and the composition of stormwater, the according treatment requirements differ. With the increasing implementation of blue-green infrastructures, potential threads for groundwater need to be discussed too. In particular, this applies to dissolved fractions and long-term operation. The applied or proposed solutions range from decentralised LID systems over semi-central technical devices to specifically designed treatment facilities (nature based and/or technical). With their increasing full-scale implementation, operational experience is permanently growing. Besides, new or tailored technologies are developed, e.g., for highly mobile compounds. But treatment itself is only one aspect, it needs to be accompanied by an intelligently designed and operated drainage system to adress the area specific contamination patterns and the use of its full capacity during the event. This may be supported by process modelling or AI. This Special Issue intends to compile the existing knowledge for targeted management of highly polluted stormwater. This implies i.a.:
- Monitoring of contamination (sampling, parameters, analysis, data processing);
- Specific contamination for different landuse, operational activities, material of impervious areas
(incl. emerging or so far under-estimated contaminants, review/proposal of indicator substances); - Compound specific transport and transformation pathways;
- Impact on ambient water systems (surface and groundwater), monitoring and risk assessment;
- Lab- and field experience of retention, degradation, transformation in NBS and technical treatment facilities;
- Development/improvement of treatment technologies;
- Critical review of existing guidelines/data bases for stormwater treatment;
- System oriented design and operation of drainage and treatment systems;
- Digitalisation (sensoring, process modelling, remote control, AI).
We hope that this topic arouses your interest and that we can support the community with your research results.
Prof. Dr. Jens Tränckner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- stormwater management
- commercial areas contamination
- traffic contamination
- agriculture pollutants
- stormwater treatment
- urban drainage
- water quality
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